Ruby Margarette
Pete, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Pete, died at the Marshfield
Hospital Wednesday, Dec. 19, 1923, of tuberculosis of the lungs,
from which she had been a sufferer for the more than eight months.
She was born Oct. 2, 1903 at Atlanta, Wis., and at the age of
twelve years moved to Owen, Clark County, Wis. with her parents.
She was twenty years, two months and seventeen years of age, and
was married July 1, 1922 to Mr. Vern Douphner of Withee, Clark
County, at St. Paul, Minn. To this union was born one daughter,
Evelyn, March 27, this year. She was a young woman, a good mother,
and her untimely death has brought sorrow to her relatives and many
friends. Besides her husband and daughter, she left to mourn, her
parents, two brothers, Robert and William, both of Milwaukee, and
one sister, Mrs. Fred Grendehl of Lublin. Funeral services were
held from the Catholic Church Saturday morning, and burial took
place in the Riverside Cemetery.